Due to concerns that sea life was allowed to travel freely in and out of the port at Fukushima Daiichi after finding high levels of cesium in fish and shellfish caught in the port, TEPCO announced that it would put up a net in the end of January of this year to contain marine life. […]
Born on April 22nd, 1724, Immanuel Kant was one of the most famous philosophers during the “Age of Enlightenment” at the end of the 18th century. In the latter stages of his life at the ripe old age of 57, Kant first published his major work, the ‘Critique of Pure Reason’, which is still one […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been working bullishly to promote new economic and energy policies which are facing harsh scrutiny from the public and experts alike. The Japanese government has said that it expects positive effects to stem from its economic stimulus and growth strategy packages, but the consensus among private-sector economists is that […]
On Monday this week, a parliamentary faction of France’s green party said it would demand the creation of a parliament committee to investigate the troubles with the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) design. On the same day, Finnish nuclear consortium Fennovoima announced that it had selected Toshiba as a sole candidate to build a nuclear reactor […]
From the early days of nuclear research and development, experts claimed that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter, but that dream was killed dead after the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters lead to costly upgrades and regulatory standards which lead to worldwide delays and cost overruns at nuclear construction sites. Prior […]
According to TEPCO, twenty workers at Fukushima Daiichi spent two and a half hours in the Unit 1 reactor building collecting water and sediment for sampling analysis from the accumulated water in the torus room. Workers collected water samples from the top of the water surface and from the bottom of the torus room. Workers […]
For the last year, Southern California Edison has been working to resolve the serious problems and deficiencies found in the newly installed replacement steam generators at both Unit 2 and Unit 3. As workers have removed the fuel from Unit 3, it seems unlikely that the unit will return to service. The utility has been […]
TEPCO released video footage of an investigation into the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor 3 spent fuel pool, after workers performing debris removal operations knocked the fuel handling machine mast into the spent fuel pool. TEPCO claims to have found no initial signs of damage to the spent fuel racks or liner. The footage revealed large amounts […]
This week, twenty workers at Fukushima Daiichi worked to investigate the torus room inside of the Unit 1 reactor building. They found that the top of the water is around OP 3700, which is lower than previous surveys. Workers also recorded radiation levels above the surface of the water and found them to be over […]
According to FirstEnergy, the utility which operates the Perry Nuclear Power Plant in Lake County Ohio, a medical incident occurred inside of the plant in a contaminated area while supporting work for an upcoming refueling outage, subsequently leading to the death of a worker while on the job. Due to the severity of the medical […]
On Tuesday at a House of Councillors Budget Committee meeting, the minister of international trade and industry who also oversees the power industry, Toshimitsu Motegi, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party, said that it was not appropriate to say that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has been contained, or that work to bring the […]
A panel from the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan released a report that says two faults underneath the Higashidori nuclear power plant in Aomori Prefecture are highly likely active. This throws a large monkey wrench in the plans of the utilities which operate the nuclear power plant, who had thought that the Higashidory Unit 1 […]
On Friday, Washington Governor Jay Inslee confirmed that radioactive liquids are leaking from tanks at the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States at Hanford, further heightening concerns experts have shared about the integrity of other storage facilities which have not been investigated and may also be leaking. The U.S. Department of Energy […]
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may bring about a small revival to Japan’s robotics industry, which had long been losing ground with consumers as they worked on developing robots which could carry out duties which humans could already do, but now is working to develop new technologies for decontamination and recovery work in extremely hazardous […]
TEPCO workers carried out efforts at the Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 reactor to drill a hole through the concrete containment and steel containment liner in order to insert a camera to investigate where the melted nuclear fuel may be currently located and how much water is being provided to cool it. Four feet from the […]
Earlier this year an investigation of inspection records of key safety equipment at the Monju fast-breeder prototype station revealed over 10,000 irregularities in the documentation of checkups and operations management efforts. Originally the utility operating the station, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, had claimed to have conducted proper inspections and documentation, but admitted earlier this […]
TEPCO workers sent an underwater camera into the Unit 3 spent fuel pool to determine the final resting place of the fuel handling machine mast, which was knocked into the Unit 3 spent fuel pool during debris removal operations on February 6th, 2013. The 1.5 ton device was found resting on top of the fuel […]
Today, nuclear power plants operate in 31 of 196 nations, providing only 5.7% of the world’s energy, and prompting world-wide debate about the merits and benefits of the use of nuclear energy. Annual generation of nuclear power has been on a downward trend over the last 5 years, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster has […]
A non-licensed, supervisory employee had a confirmed positive for alcohol during a random fitness-for-duty test. The employee’s access to the plant has been restricted. Source: NRC Event Notifications
TEPCO caught in another lie related to Diet Investigation Source: The Asahi Shimbun Japan facing problems with nuclear power and freedom of press Source: The Japan Times US firm hired to aid decontamination of Fukushima Daiichi site Perma-Fix, has been awarded a contract to provide technical consulting for decontamination of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power […]